How Man Falls

He stared into nothing as he stood in the street

Befixed, bewitched, and resigned to defeat

A concrete cowboy

Felled by perfumed breeze

And imagined caresses

From a jackal-grinned tease

Reviews

[Ana Papaya]

Such a fitting title for this perfect little poem.
Jackal grinned. That makes me think of a devious and dangerous smile.
Probably has brought many men down. :)

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

lol theres actually a cute story behind this one.
There's a park close to where I grew up. That park used to have a big bronze statue out front, of someone important, on a horse, looking out over the road. So old, you couldn't tell it was bronze. It was more of a sea-green color.
One day, when we went to the park, I looked for the statue high up on the stone pedestal where I'd expected, but it wasn't there. It was laying on the ground, it's foundations finally crumbled.
I spent the next 30 years fantasizing what might have brought down the mighty statue.
This was what I decided.

[Ana Papaya]

Ha! Cute! :)

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

It's good to have closure ;)

[John the Baptist]

Nicely rhymed portrait here. Of course, though, we don't know her side of the story.

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

Ah, but would we truly understand it even if we did?
Thx. I avoid rhyming, as a rule. But the cadence dictated it, so I made the necessary changes.